Maternity Portraits with Rose Nobs

December 12, 2022
1 min read

This week, we’re proud to present a series of maternity portraits featuring Rose Nobs, featured makeup artist for The People of Light and Shadow and other clients. Last fall, Rose messaged to ask whether we could do a maternity session. The last maternity shoot Distant Era did (The Contract) had a lot to do with goblins. This one was a little more traditional, shot in a beautiful garden in late fall, out in the northwest suburbs. The weather behaved perfectly, granting us soft, even light. Rose sent a few very helpful references in advance, and with the assistance of Elizabeth MacDougald, we captured a variety of maternity portraits with Rose and Ryan. Afterward, Rose treated us to an absolutely magnificent brunch in her family home. We all ate like hobbits before heading back to the city. 

We used the same lens to photograph Rose’s maternity portraits as we used for The People of Light and Shadow (Canon 85 mm f/1.4L IS USM). Shooting indoors, I seldom have the chance to use it to its full capacity. Outdoors, we had the opportunity to open up the aperture for some lovely background blur.

But enough words. Let’s get to the photographs. Here’s a small sampling from the dozens we liked.

Subscribe to
The All Worlds Traveller

Distant Era's weekly blog delivers every Monday.

Related Posts

steven Latest posts

Steven Townshend is a fine art/portrait photographer and writer with a background in theatre, written narrative, and award-winning game design. As a young artist, Steven toured the US and Canada performing in Shakespeare companies while journaling their moments on paper and film. In his transition from stage to page, Steven continued to work as a theatre photographer, capturing dramatic scenes while incorporating elements of costume, makeup, and theatrical lighting in his work. Drawn to stories set in other times and places, Steven creates works through which fellow dreamers and time travelers might examine their own humanity or find familiar comfort in the reflections of the people and places of a distant era.

  1. Testing a New Camera at the Bristol Renaissance Faire
  2. Archival Photography for The Tempest with Idle Muse Theatre Company (Part 3): Lighting and Scenes
  3. Archival Photography for The Tempest with Idle Muse Theatre Company (Part 2): Costumes
  4. Greetings from the UK

The All Worlds Traveller

Welcome to The All Worlds Traveller, an eclectic collection of thoughts, pictures, and stories from a Distant Era. Illustrated with Distant Era art and photographs, these pages explore the stories and worlds of people beyond the here and now, and the people and creative processes behind such stories. This is a blog about photography and narrative; history and myth; fantasy, science-fiction, and the weird; creation and experience. This is a blog about stories.

Steven Townshend

I’m Steven Townshend—your guide, scribe, editor, and humble narrator. The All Worlds Traveller is my personal publication, an exploratory conversation about stories and how we interact with them, from photographs to narratives to games—a kind of variety show in print. It is a conversation with other artists who explore the past, the future, and the fantastical in their work. Not one world—but all worlds. Where Distant Era shows stories in images, The All Worlds Traveller is all about the words.

Follow Me

About a Distant Era

Distant Era creates fine art and portrait photographs of people and places from imagined pasts, possible futures, and magical realities. In collaboration with other artists, we evoke these distant eras with theatrical costume and makeup, evocative scenery, and deliberate lighting, and we enhance them with contemporary tools to cast these captured moments in the light of long ago or far away. We long to walk the lion-decorated streets of Babylon, to visit alien worlds aboard an interstellar vessel, and to observe the native dances of elves. Our images are windows to speculative realities and postcards from the past. They are consolation for fellow time travelers who long to look beyond the familiar scenery of the present and gaze upon the people and places of a distant era.

Popular

Previous Story

Photo Gear: Lights and Lighting Accessories

Next Story

Shooting the Moon

Latest from Blog

Greetings from the UK

We’re traveling abroad this week in the UK, experiencing immersive theatre, Shakespeare, and life in London and Wales. I’ve included some travel shots of our adventures for this special All Worlds Traveller…
Go toTop